- Ellen Akins
Ellen Akins was born and raised in
South Bend, Indiana . She is the author of four novels, including:*Home Movie (Simon & Schuster) (1988)
*Little Woman (Harper & Row) (1990)
*Public Life (HarperCollins) (1993)
*Hometown Brew (Alfred A. Knopf) (1998)She has also authored a collection of short stories:
*World Like a Knife (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) (1991).
From 1975 to 1977, Ellen was a part of the Ensemble of
Beyond Our Control , a youth-produced program that aired locally in South Bend onWNDU-TV Channel 16.Her stories, reviews and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Southwest Review, Southern Review, Missouri Review and The Georgia Review.
She has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
Ingram Merrill Foundation ; a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and a Whiting Writer's Award (1989).She currently lives in
Cornucopia, Wisconsin .
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